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Acknowledgements | p. vii |
Contributors | p. ix |
Special Features | p. xv |
List of Colour Illustrations | p. xvii |
General Introduction | p. xix |
Silent Cinema 1895-1930 | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Origins and Survival | p. 6 |
Bibliography | p. 13 |
Early Cinema | p. 13 |
Bibliography | p. 23 |
Transitional Cinema | p. 23 |
Bibliography | p. 42 |
The Hollywood Studio System | p. 43 |
Bibliography | p. 53 |
The World-Wide Spread of Cinema | p. 53 |
The First World War and the Crisis in Europe | p. 62 |
Bibliography | p. 62 |
Bibliography | p. 70 |
Tricks and Animation | p. 71 |
Bibliography | p. 77 |
Comedy | p. 78 |
Bibliography | p. 86 |
Documentary | p. 86 |
Bibliography | p. 95 |
Cinema and the Avant-Garde | p. 95 |
Serials | p. 105 |
Bibliography | p. 105 |
Bibliography | p. 111 |
French Silent Cinema | p. 112 |
Bibliography | p. 123 |
Italy: Spectacle and Melodrama | p. 123 |
Bibliography | p. 130 |
British Cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock | p. 130 |
Germany: the Weimar Years | p. 136 |
Bibliography | p. 136 |
The Scandinavian Style | p. 151 |
Bibliography | p. 151 |
Bibliography | p. 159 |
Pre-Revolutionary Russia | p. 159 |
Bibliography | p. 162 |
The Soviet Union and the Russian émigrés | p. 162 |
Yiddish Cinema in Europe | p. 174 |
Bibliography | p. 174 |
Bibliography | p. 176 |
Japan: Before the Great Kanto Earthquake | p. 177 |
Bibliography | p. 182 |
Music and the Silent Film | p. 183 |
Bibliography | p. 192 |
The Heyday of the Silents | p. 192 |
Bibliography | p. 204 |
Sound Cinema 1930-1960 | p. 205 |
Introduction | p. 207 |
The Introduction of Sound | p. 211 |
Bibliography | p. 219 |
the Triumph of the Studio System | p. 220 |
Bibliography | p. 234 |
Censorship and Self-Regulation | p. 235 |
Bibliography | p. 248 |
The Sound of Music | p. 248 |
Bibliography | p. 259 |
Technology and Innovation | p. 259 |
Bibliography | p. 267 |
Animation | p. 267 |
Bibliography | p. 275 |
Cinema and Genre | p. 276 |
Bibliography | p. 285 |
The Western | p. 286 |
Bibliography | p. 294 |
The Musical | p. 294 |
Bibliography | p. 303 |
Crime Movies | p. 304 |
The Fantastic | p. 312 |
Bibliography | p. 312 |
Bibliography | p. 321 |
Documentary | p. 322 |
Socialism, Fascism, and Democracy | p. 333 |
Bibliography | p. 333 |
Bibliography | p. 343 |
The Popular Art of French Cinema | p. 344 |
Italy from Fascism to Neo-Realism | p. 353 |
Bibliography | p. 353 |
Bibliography | p. 361 |
Britain at the End of Empire | p. 361 |
Germany: Nazism and After | p. 374 |
Bibliography | p. 374 |
Bibliography | p. 382 |
East Central Europe Before the Second World War | p. 383 |
Bibliography | p. 389 |
Soviet Film Under Stalin | p. 389 |
Bibliography | p. 398 |
Indian Cinema: Origins to Independence | p. 398 |
China Before 1949 | p. 409 |
Bibliography | p. 409 |
Bibliography | p. 413 |
The Classical Cinema in Japan | p. 413 |
Bibliography | p. 422 |
The Emergence of Australian Film | p. 422 |
Cinema in Latin America | p. 427 |
Bibliography | p. 427 |
Bibliography | p. 435 |
After the War | p. 436 |
Bibliography | p. 443 |
Transformation of the Hollywood System | p. 443 |
Independents and Mavericks | p. 451 |
Bibliography | p. 451 |
Bibliography | p. 460 |
The Modern Cinema 1960-1995 | p. 461 |
Introduction | p. 463 |
Television and the Film Industry | p. 466 |
The New Hollywood | p. 475 |
Bibliography | p. 475 |
Bibliography | p. 482 |
New Technologies | p. 483 |
Bibliography | p. 490 |
Sex and Sensation | p. 490 |
Bibliography | p. 496 |
The Black Presence in American Cinema | p. 497 |
Bibliography | p. 509 |
Exploitation and the Mainstream | p. 509 |
Bibliography | p. 515 |
Dreams and Nightmares in the Hollywood Blockbuster | p. 516 |
Bibliography | p. 526 |
CinÉma-VÉritÉ and the New Documentary | p. 527 |
Avant-Garde Film: the Second Wave | p. 537 |
Bibliography | p. 537 |
Bibliography | p. 550 |
Animation in the Post-Industrial Era | p. 551 |
Bibliography | p. 558 |
Modern Film Music | p. 558 |
Bibliography | p. 566 |
Art Cinema | p. 567 |
Bibliography | p. 575 |
New Directions in French Cinema | p. 576 |
Italy: Auteurs and After | p. 586 |
Bibliography | p. 586 |
Bibliography | p. 596 |
Spain After Franco | p. 596 |
Bibliography | p. 603 |
British Cinema: the Search for Identity | p. 604 |
Bibliography | p. 613 |
The New German Cinema | p. 614 |
Bibliography | p. 627 |
East Germany: the Defa Story | p. 627 |
Changing States in East Central Europe | p. 632 |
Bibliography | p. 632 |
Bibliography | p. 640 |
Russia After the Thaw | p. 640 |
Bibliography | p. 651 |
Cinema in the Soviet Republics | p. 651 |
Bibliography | p. 656 |
Turkish Cinema | p. 656 |
Bibliography | p. 661 |
The Arab World | p. 661 |
The Cinemas of Sub-Saharan Africa | p. 667 |
Bibliography | p. 667 |
Bibliography | p. 672 |
Iranian Cinema | p. 672 |
Bibliography | p. 678 |
Filming the Nation | p. 678 |
Bibliography | p. 689 |
Indonesian Cinema | p. 690 |
China After the Revolution | p. 693 |
Bibliography | p. 693 |
Bibliography | p. 704 |
Popular Cinema in Hong Kong | p. 704 |
Taiwanese New Cinema | p. 711 |
Bibliography | p. 711 |
Bibliography | p. 713 |
The Modernization of Japanese Film | p. 714 |
Bibliography | p. 721 |
New Australian Cinema | p. 722 |
Bibliography | p. 730 |
Bibliography | p. 731 |
New Zealand Cinema | p. 731 |
Canadian Cinema/Cinéma Canadien | p. 731 |
Bibliography | p. 740 |
New Cinemas in Latin America | p. 740 |
Bibliography | p. 749 |
New Concepts of Cinema | p. 750 |
Bibliography | p. 759 |
The Resurgence of Cinema | p. 759 |
Bibliography | p. 767 |
Index | p. 785 |
List of Picture Sources | p. 823 |
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